Read fast. Decide faster. A read-later app for the best writing on X and Substack, and the one in this notebook that didn't make it.
what it was
A Chrome extension plus a web app. One click saved a long post from X or Substack. The app turned it into a clean page, read it to you if you wanted, and then made you decide what to do with it. The home page called most reading lists a graveyard. This was meant to be the way out.
why I built it (sample)
I kept bookmarking great threads and never reading them again.
why it ended
(Kayne to write)
what it could do
One-click save: from X Articles and Substack posts, with a small Chrome extension.
X bookmarks, saved for you: tap the bookmark icon on any post and it lands in your library too. Added in v1.2.0, with an on/off switch.
A quiet reader: clean type, light and dark themes, font and size settings.
Focus Reader: speed reading, one word at a time at the pace you pick. Try the little one below.
Do, Decide, Defer, Drop: every article had to get a decision. Defer snoozed it for 1, 3 or 7 days. Ignore it three times and it deleted itself.
Listen: any article read out loud, with the current sentence highlighted.
Sova, the owl: summaries, a short critique, and questions answered about whatever you were reading.
More than X: RSS feeds, PDFs and EPUBs too, with a chapter list for the long ones.
Quote cards: highlight a line, get a shareable image, post it to X.
Streaks and stats: a reading streak and a stats page, so the habit stacks up.
Community picks: the most-saved articles of the week, plus a weekly digest email.
Works as an app: install it to your home screen. (I think it worked offline too.)
try it: the focus reader
ready?
Stop hoarding articles. Save it, read it fast, act on it. Your reading list is a graveyard. Read fast. Decide faster.
taped in
the library, from my demo video (Mar 10, 2026)the reader, light themereader settings: theme, font, sizefocus reader, mid-sentence
stills from the demo video. Sova is from the old site, via the Wayback Machine.
try it: do, decide, defer, drop
"The article you saved three weeks ago"12 min read
every saved thing had to get one of these.
built with
Next.js 16 + React 19the web app
Tailwind CSS 4 + Motionthe look and the animations
